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Show progress bars while users are reading a story
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Show progress bar on top of story page to let the users know the status of a story.

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SBisson renamed this task from Show progress bars while users are reading a story. to Show progress bars while users are reading a story.Apr 20 2022, 2:18 PM
SBisson triaged this task as Medium priority.

Change 784795 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; author: Sbisson):

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikistories@master] Bring back the StoryViewer progress bars

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/784795

@SGautam_WMF In the patch above, I bring back the progress bars pretty much how there were in the prototype except I reduced the space between the bars a little and changed the playing speed from 2s to 5s per frame.

This is what it looks like for a story with 10 frames:

localhost_8080_wiki_Boat.png (1×800 px, 1 MB)

Thanks @SBisson , we can make more changes to it once its available in beta. For now, I have removed the design details section from the task description.

Change 784795 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikistories@master] Bring back the StoryViewer progress bars

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/784795

Testing:

Looks great!

image.png (1×796 px, 1 MB)

@SBisson , if a user wants to spend some more time on a story frame (using both mobile and PC), other than the 5 seconds, how would this work? By tapping and holding the picture or scrolling downwards through the story text?

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@SBisson , if a user wants to spend some more time on a story frame (using both mobile and PC), other than the 5 seconds, how would this work? By tapping and holding the picture or scrolling downwards through the story text?

We had a pause feature in a previous prototype for that purpose. Please create a task if you think we should bring it back. cc @SGautam_WMF

Works as expected, documented small visual changes which we take care in a separate task.